San Diego County Biographies
KIMBALL BROTHERS'
William T., Edward G., Eugene H.
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ranch is situated seven and one-half miles southeast of Perris, and contains 480
acres of rich land, every inch of which is under the plow, and is without a
stump or stone to prevent them from sitting on their gang plows and plowing and
sowing (with two plows) fifteen acres per day. This year they are sowing 200
acres to wheat, and the balance of the ranch to barley. They are also breeding
and raising several line Hamilton horses, and intend to go to more largely into
fine blooded stock-raising. There are three of these brothers: the oldest,
William T., was born in Henderson County, Texas, October 1, 1847; Edward G. was
born in San Francisco, December 26, 1860, and Eugene H. was born in San
Francisco, January 1, 1863. Their sister, Mary E. Harrington, who is the widow
of Mr. William C. Harrington, born in Texas, in 1864, is now their housekeeper.
Their father, Albert G. Kimball, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, October 20,
1817, and their mother, Sarah C. (Gleeves) Kimball was also a native of
Tennessee, born in 1820. Her death occurred in 1880. There were nine children in
the family. The brothers have followed farming most of the time for thirteen
years. They resided in San Francisco for fourteen years, in Contra Costa County
and in Los Angeles County several years. In December, 1886, they removed to
Spring valley, and in the short space of three years have made the valuable
ranch on which they now live. They are all temperance men in every sense of the
word, using neither tobacco nor strong drink. It is needless to add that this
family are worthy, enterprising members of the community in which they reside.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower
California� Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 330-331